exercise_2a

Exercise 2a

Create a custom widget to configure the existing OffsetModifier tool path modifier to function as module that applies a camera standoff transform to tool path waypoints (assumed to be on the surface of the mesh). Your modifier should take a tool path like the image below:

and turn it into a tool path that looks like the following image:

Tasks

• Familiarize yourself with the definition of the class in the header file
• Complete the lines marked TODO in the source file
• Uncomment the lines adding this plugin in the plugin source file
• Compile
• Test by applying this modifier after a raster tool path planner using this mesh

Note: Remember to add the name of our plugin library to the environment variable that allows noether to find libraries providing plugins:

export NOETHER_PLUGIN_LIBS=noether_roscon_2024_plugins

Challenge Tasks

• Make it such that the user can specify the camera standoff distances in inches rather than meters